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Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream" - Hardcover

Churchwell, Sarah

 
9781541673403: Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1541673409 ISBN 13: 9781541673403
Verlag: Basic Books, 2018

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A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2018

The unknown history of two ideas crucial to the struggle over what America stands for

In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases -- the "American dream" and "America First" -- that once embodied opposing visions for America.

Starting as a Republican motto before becoming a hugely influential isolationist slogan during World War I, America First was always closely linked with authoritarianism and white supremacy. The American dream, meanwhile, initially represented a broad vision of democratic and economic equality. Churchwell traces these notions through the 1920s boom, the Depression, and the rise of fascism at home and abroad, laying bare the persistent appeal of demagoguery in America and showing us how it was resisted. At a time when many ask what America's future holds, Behold, America is a revelatory, unvarnished portrait of where we have been.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarah Churchwell is professor of American literature and public understanding of the humanities at the University of London. The author and editor of several previous books, including the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby, she is a native of Chicago, now living in London.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1541673409
ISBN 13 
9781541673403
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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